{"id":1167,"date":"2024-05-31T23:30:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T23:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2024-05-31T23:34:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T23:34:05","slug":"satans-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1167","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSatan\u2019s Playground\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEvery kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.\u201d Matthew 12:25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the above verse Jesus is speaking to the Pharisees and all of us with a prophetic warning. He\u2019s letting everyone know that Satan\u2019s playground is a divided world.\u00a0The word \u201cdevil,\u201d comes from the Greek word\u00a0<em>diabolos<\/em>, which means \u201cto divide and\/or to separate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Satan would have us believe that everything is just \u201cFine\u201d. However, these times are anything but fine. In fact, turmoil surrounds us on all sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t know about you, but the state of the world makes me nauseous. I have never been more serious about praying and snuggling up to Jesus than I am today. I highly recommend that we all be united in doing just that. I truly think that Jesus is our only hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have I noticed that relationships with family, friends, co-workers and the rest of the world are strained?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cEvery kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.\u201d Matthew 12:25 Applying God\u2019s Word In the above verse Jesus is speaking to the Pharisees and all of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}